Tolkien and Lewis Foundation Seminar

Rafael Muniz Professor Siewers FOUN 098-52 12 December 2021 One Force to Rule Them All, One Regime to Bind Them In a desolate, burning landscape, seemingly under eclipse to speak of its darkness, a totalitarian regime that spans all across the land of Middle Earth is upheld from one strong, all seeing, seemingly unbeatable force… Continue reading Final Tolkien and Lewis Seminar Essay

The point of chapter two of this week’s readings from Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago, titled “Rulers Change, the Archipelago Remains” seems to be reflected quite well in the aftermath of Sauron’s demise and the destruction of the One Ring in this week’s readings of Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings quite well. Even with the… Continue reading 12/2/2021 Blog

As Frodo, Sam, Gollum, and the rest of the characters in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings progress along their respective quests to further the decided goal of destroying the one ring, they face a changed society under the totalitarian control of Sauron and his forces because they have managed to force an understanding… Continue reading 11/4 Blog

On an ever so important quest as the journey to the destruction of the one ring, everyone closely involved in promoting its success finds their own way to persevere and push forward because they all have the strong desire to survive. Whether this survival is thought of in a grand-scale mindset, as saving everyone once… Continue reading 10/28 Blog

Rafael Muniz Professor Siewers FOUN 098-52 6 October 2021 The Fine Line Between the Sublime and the Subliminal Mark, learning of his wife’s imprisonment by the N.I.C.E., the organization for which he is supposed to relentlessly defend each and every action of, realizes just how powerless he truly is compared to the might of the… Continue reading Essay 1

Draft Title:  The Fine Line Between the Sublime and the Subliminal: An Analysis of Forced Teaching → (need stronger subtitle) Paragraph Description of Focus: I want to focus on the relationship between Gaius’ and Titus’ attempted imposition of their close-minded teachings of what “sublime” can and can’t mean to the general public with the Brave… Continue reading Essay 1 Preliminary Memo

Some say knowledge is power, which sometimes is the case, yet this case’s power comes from an existing and abused lack of knowledge. Power can come from such a lack of knowledge when there are those higher entities, such as Google, Facebook, or the N.I.C.E. that truly benefit off of the less the government and… Continue reading 9/9/2021 Blog Post

C.S. Lewis used the core themes, values, and interpretations he explored and dissected in The Abolition of Man as the backbone of the devilry aspect of That Hideous Strength to demonstrate that even when fully fictionalized, the reality of these themes is truly omnipresent.  Upon further reflection of whom Lewis refers to in The Abolition… Continue reading 9/2 Blog Post

The Abolition of Man Blog Hello everyone, my name is Rafael Muniz. I’m currently an undecided management major from Chester, New Jersey. I’ve only learned about Tolkien and Lewis’ works from a filmmaking standpoint before, so I’m excited to be able to get started from this point of view Our first reading for this seminar… Continue reading Tolkien and Lewis